Riot Thread?
Riot Thread?
Camden White
Parker King
Landon Harris
What's that on the ground, in the middle?
Jason Campbell
Caleb Kelly
Portable PA system. Speakers to tell the populace to stay in line.
Nicholas Hughes
Sorry this was for you
Noah Rodriguez
This was the HK protesters busting into the legistlative council building. They wrecked the place
Noah Diaz
Nathaniel Sanchez
Austin Morgan
Caleb Reed
Also it seems that in mainland China people don't even know what's happening in HK. Apparently HK and Macau are on the otherside of the great firewall of china.
Daniel Turner
Landon Brooks
Aaron Martin
Zachary Morgan
Jeremiah Richardson
You have to hand it to the asians, they know how to have a good old fashioned chimpout when they are fed up with things
Thomas Lee
Ayden Torres
it doesn't look too chimped out though, they kinda seem to behave.
Xavier Miller
Although I would disagree with the phrasing I'd say you are more or less right. Thailand, India, Japan, Burma, China. They have a knack for civil unrest.
Jackson Ward
There is a gradient to behaving. HK has to walk the line between the one country:two systems rule and Tienanmen. China generally doesn't flinch from excessive force but HK has a chance to skirt a crackdown and they are taking advantage of it.
Easton Johnson
Hong Kong rioted like a dozen times between 1900 and 1997. I'm glad the Chinks are finding out how tricky the place is to manage.
Luke Peterson
David Foster
All rights derive from freedom of speech. It's a dangerous thing. The communist manifesto was pamphlet that took less than an hour to read and it set the world on fire and killed millions. When people can talk freely there is a significant chance of things going sideways.
Noah Gray
Robert Adams
Carter Richardson
Bentley Phillips
Austin Richardson
Brody Hernandez
Jose Smith
Hey, one of my images. Glad to see people are saving them. Unless you scraped it up somewhere else.
James Diaz
Joseph Foster
Are you Chinese? Or are these just the most recent riots? Either way thanks for posting, I enjoy these threads
Lincoln Green
Mason Sanchez
Not Chinese, just like the conflict. Hong Kong is what I am posting because it's recent and well photographed. I like older conflicts too. I know a couple of folks who are pretty active about the situation so it feels relevant. Also thanks for the props.
Levi Thomas
Parker Lewis
Carter Walker
Daniel Myers
Carson Nelson
Owen Mitchell
Quick poll:
Who here has actually been in a riot?
Grayson Brown
What would be the best way to stay safe during a riot? Say you are with your girlfriend downtown amd get caught in the middle of it? What do you do?
Isaiah Davis
I like the umbrellas. Idk if its to keep from being identified by but it looks very effective at it.
Bentley Nelson
>tfw a half naked sweaty man with swimming googles is flipping you the bird
Cooper Foster
I've been in two I suppose but I wasn't exactly a participant in either, right time right place I guess. One was a protest that got dispersed when something got violent a great distance from us. Since we really didn't know what was happening we just kinda bounced. Most pictures of riots are taken from the very front lines of it where people are in direct contact with police or of the property destruction that sometimes comes with it.
Lincoln Bennett
Looks like a speaker, probably hooked up to a microphone in the back for cease and desist et cetera
Owen Sanders
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. This is what happens when you let commies take your weapons away. Every. Single. Time.
Mason Sanders
The other was a sports riot after my cities team won, there was a spate of riotry in multiple parts of the city. At the time I was coming back home from work and wandered through a cloud of smoke and decided to walk a block down and see what was happening. Ended up standing in the street between a police shield wall and a bunch of dudes trying to set a pile of trash on fire and throwing shit at the cops. I left because a bunch of dirt-bike cops showed up and in my city those guys do not fuck around and I didn't want to get caught up in it.
Josiah Collins
Where's is this? Kai Tack airport?
Austin Harris
Shelter in place or leave. Lots of people just enter businesses and ride it out. That's what happened alot in the Battle for Seattle. Leaving usually works unless the cops are fucking idiots. Police actually have well thought out riot tactics since they are usually heavily outnumbered. Most rioters are trying to get somewhere specific or make a scene in the place they are, police almost always leave an exit route for people to flee. Cornering a massive group of people bent on violence is pretty stupid if you are outnumbered 10 to 1. Usually people can just walk away from the whole affair by going in the opposite direction of the cops.
Ryder Myers
The umbrella is a symbol of resistance for them now. It's for preventing identification but it also helps in alot of other situations. Sometimes these protests have happened in the rain. Also helps against pepper spray. I think the imagery is beautiful.
Robert Robinson
There is mild irony in the fact that is a Mao Zedong quote.
Brandon Cooper
The latest skirmish was pretty epic. The cops funneled the protesters into a shopping mall and blocked all exits with patrons still inside and proceeded to duke it out inside the multi level mall. A cop got his finger bit off for trying to finger stab the eyes but ended in the mouth.
Caleb Howard
The original caption didn't mention HK's airport. It sure looks like an airport but I couldnt tell you that is what it is for certain.
Owen Harris
That's metal as fuck. The umbrella movement originally petered out and died but has come back with a vengeance and the anger seems to not be going away. They got away with sticking it to the man and they are hungry for more.
David White
Kinda makes me wonder what China will do to squeeze them next without going full Tienanmen. They could just blockade the city. It can't survive on it's own. Maybe internal sanctioning? They are tried to handle Hong Kong with kid gloves but the CCP will have a breaking point.
Jayden Ross
Really bad planning as it was suppose to be a morale booster for the cops to do a mass arrest but ended up being a dungeon.They even had female riot cops in the mix and they were bullied hard and almost got carried away sorta like goblins in Goblin Slayer.
Rumor has it that this HK ordeal is a trap set up by the previous CCP leadership under Jiang whatshisface to fuck Xi's shit up. But ignoring the small protesters is the best course of action as any PLA deployment gives Uncle Sam and the Bongs an excuse to act. Not that they would, but at least sanctions or w.e.
Daniel White
It's interesting, from the Hong Kongers I have met they really basically agree that they are Chinese and apart of China, they just do not want to surrender any of the freedoms that they have been living with.
Joshua Moore
Aaron Bennett
Isaiah Cook
Andrew Gutierrez
It also comes from the right to use the gun. If you shoot a government agent in america you automatically get a significantly harsher sentence and are 90% likely to go to prison for the rest of your life, if the other feds let you live that is. Thanks to the co-operation of police+courts and the almost country-within-a-country shadowy powers of the ABC agencies, you having a gun does absolutely nothing to protect your position or society.
It does however let you shoot rogue nigs and other robbers/mentalcases who threaten your home. But politically....beyond useless unless you go postal or theres a boogaloo.
Luke King
That guy looks anorexic.
Adam Anderson
Jeremiah Ramirez
Okay. I'm moving on from HK to Indonesian election riots in Jakarta.
Wyatt Russell
This was totally govt targeted. A chimpout is looting the big and small businesses setting fire to civilian cars in your own neighborhood then crying about how poor and shitty things are compared to all white places
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Jaxson Martin
Luis Moore
Do the Hong Kong rioters have an organization page? I would like to donate to help them buy supplies.
Christopher Bennett
Kayden Wilson
fuckin' what. There probably is some organization fundraising but you probably aren't going to find an easy way to help. People over there have their faces covered for a reason. Big brother is taking notes.
Liam Morris
Austin Davis
Thomas Torres
I'm sure they aren't all technologically illiterate.
They have got to have some sort of organization online, how else would they coordinate protests?
Bitcoin is not untraceable but there are ways to make it less traceable, such as just making a new wallet upon each transaction, that way it's hard to figure out who's who. It's likely they would use such a platform to manage their funding.
But at any rate there are ways of conducting online activity which makes it less easy to spot. Just wondering if anyone knew of their page.
Kayden Anderson
I know there used to be a hacker collective called the Hong Kong Blondes in the late 2000's that spent a lot of time trying to bring down the great firewall of China and bring unfettered material to the mainland but I don't know if they are still around.
Kevin Turner
Cameron Walker
Jeremiah Butler
Evan Ramirez
Apparently lately the dissidents have been using iphone airdrop to dump files packaged as free money that contain images and information about the protests in mainland China.
Julian Price
>iPhone airdrop
if it works, it works
I was expecting something more sophisticated honestly, but if you want to round up the masses, then you need to appeal to them. iPhones tend to do that lol.
Christopher Hill
David Morris
Ryder Powell
Gabriel Howard
Michael Powell
Benjamin Harris
If anyone can give me a reason the cops had white paint smeared on their cheeks i'd like to know.
Oliver James
Luis Reed
Levi Taylor
Sebastian Hall
Who's lurking?
Jaxon Fisher
Kayden Lewis
Dylan Mitchell
Henry Green
Ian Cook
Leo Martin
James Myers
Samuel Bennett
Charles Edwards
Joseph Roberts
Adam White